I’ve long been a believer in equality between men and women; why would it be otherwise? That women lose out significantly across all sectors of business and industry after the age of 40 especially is crazy.

Port of Cromarty Firth (PCF) chief executive, Bob Buskie, last night said that expansion projects totalling more than £100million by his organisation and the Global Energy Group (GEG) would help secure “jobs and prosperity” for the area.